More absurd fear mongering crap from the UK. Sorry for being so crass but this is getting to me. People with PTSD get to self report symptoms that they think may have been from a possible infection. WTAF? Let’s take a look...

https://twitter.com/ONS/status/1377539450528526337

Here’s the list of symptoms. Not confirmed just a self report.

THREAD: I've been hesitant to touch masks because of the hot button nature of them but this is getting out of control. New models showing thousands of lives will be saved by February is we all just mask up. It's absurd on it's face. 1/ statnews.com/2020/10/23/uni… The science is unsettled. For every study saying they help, you can find the contrary saying they don't. That's the point. The OP is absurd. There is ZERO evidence to show thousands of lives will be saved because of masks. 2/

THREAD: Come on @MotherJones this kind of reporting is just careless and simple math makes it look ridiculous. motherjones.com/coronavirus-up… 1/ Basic math destroys this one. If Sturgis had 250,000 cases link then at a IFR of 0.26% then there will be 650 deaths and there has been one. Unless of course the IFR is far far lower than that. Which would be even better news. 2/

THREAD: Because frankly I’m growing increasingly tired of countering those who are ignoring studies coming out from across the board showing children are not the drivers of this illness... 1/ “Mark Woodhouse, a leading epidemiologist and member of the government’s Sage committee, told The Times that it may have been a mistake to close schools in March given the limited role children play in spreading the virus.”

thetimes.co.uk/article/no-kno…

THREAD: I finally found the study I had read a while back and wished I had saved. This study was over an 8 yr period in MI. It followed several families and 4 HCoVs during that time. Children weren’t always the index cases. 1/

academic.oup.com/jid/article/22… Let’s look at the study and some of the conclusions. “993 HCoV infections were identified during the 8 years, with OC43 most commonly seen and 229E the least.” 2/

THREAD: There’s a lot to unwrap here. Basically in 2003 during the SARS outbreak there was a elder home in British Columbia which had an outbreak of a coronavirus. 1/ ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… Because of the SARS outbreak in Asia they did RT-PCR testing for SARS-CoV on the residents of a nursing home and they came back positive. Remember I have explained before that RT-PCR testing has limitations, it detects viral particles, and can also return a positive if... 2/

THREAD: For those still claiming the “longterm effects” are unique to #covid19 haven’t been paying attention to other viral illnesses. Let’s take a look: 1/ erj.ersjournals.com/content/45/5/1… Many viral illnesses including flu can cause longterm issues. 2/ nature.com/articles/s4159…

@CNN once again seeks to deceive the public. Clickbait about ICU beds in FL is unconscionable. They know people only read headlines and they would never click a link inside to see the actual info. Shameful. 1/ cnn.com/world/live-new… The link says that Broward County is out of beds. Only they aren’t according to the link provided by CNN. 2/

THREAD: Let’s clear some stuff up. It doesn’t matter if it’s on Twitter or Facebook, but the past several days I have been hearing the SAME EXACT narrative come out of the discussions I’ve had with dozens of people over multiple platforms. 1/ None of them have any relation to each other, and some of them aren’t even in the same state or sometimes the same country, and the same parroted talking point is coming out. Goes something like this... 2/